Big Mad True Crime

An orphan from Colombia, a stolen royal identity, and a Rodeo Drive shopping spree.

Contributing writing & research: The Queen of all things, Haley Gray.

For information pertaining to this case, check out the highlight at the top of my profile at Instagram.com/TheHeatherAshley.

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Happy 4th of July. Here is Critical Incidents newest episode. If you want to be featured, email us at Criticalincidentspod@gmail.com

I sat down with retired FBI Special Agent Seamus McAlerney to tell the inside story behind Flipping Capo: How the FBI Dismantled the Real Sopranos.

A former bank auditor who was told he'd never make it into the Bureau, Seamus landed on the legendary C-10 squad as a brand-new agent in 1998 just as a botched World Trade Center robbery cracked open one of the most significant organized crime cases in FBI history. Assigned to arrest violent DeCavalcante soldier Anthony Capo, the rookie agent chose respect over intimidation, played a patient game of mental chess, and did what no one in the family's 100-year history had ever done: he got a made member to flip.

Seamus takes us deep into the real-life world that inspired The Sopranos - the panel of bosses, the Queens strip club, the murders, and a consensual recording of mobsters watching the show and naming which characters were them. Along the way he breaks down how cooperation actually works: proffers, "eating the indictment," the Witness Security Program, RICO and its predicate acts, and why numbers beat letters when it comes to a plea.

He also shares the human cost — contracts on his witness and on law enforcement, losing his father mid-case, 9/11 grinding everything to a halt, friends lost in the towers, and a White House commendation for dismantling not one but two crime families at once.

A masterclass in patience, teamwork, and the principle that carried his whole career: persistence beats resistance, and credit will find you.

Get the book at ⁠flippingcapo.com⁠, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.
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A missing heir to a beer fortune, a typewriter and an escape from prison.

Contributing writing & research: The Queen of all things, Haley Gray. 

For information pertaining to this case, check out the highlight at the top of my profile at Instagram.com/TheHeatherAshley. 

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An adored local leader, Master Bob and a sex dungeon.

Contributing writing & research: The Queen of all things, Haley Gray. 

For information pertaining to this case, check out the highlight at the top of my profile at Instagram.com/TheHeatherAshley. 

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It's Thursday so let's talk to Kyle.

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